| Speaking for (GHC) Haskell: - There are curly braces available if you really want them, but people almost always use the whitespace-dependent syntax. There are usually a few ways you can organize your code, but I have never seen any "syntax wars" over Haskell code. - Haskell compiles down to one binary. Foreign C libraries are linked dynamically by default, if that's being counted. - Comes with (very cheap) green threads and threading primitives, along with useful concurrency structures (like channels). The standard library includes STM for safer shared mutable memory, and many libraries (like async) are available that extend this. I have not done much Go, but I think forkIO is basically equivalent to "go". - I couldn't find a whole lot comparing Haskell and Go in particular, but here is one blog post where Haskell was about the same speed as Go, in one narrow application: https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/benchmarking-level.... The http server (Warp) used by some web frameworks (Yesod, Scotty, ...) has been noted to be very performant. - Haskell has a strong, active community. It's not super big, but it seems to me the number of open haskell jobs is smaller than the number of qualified, talented haskell users. Recently there was an issue with a company advertising a non-Haskell job on the haskell-cafe mailing list, because they believed they could get some good developers that way. EDIT: I posted this without realizing I loaded this page yesterday, and that there were already some responses |